jonathanharris@e... wrote:
>
> Ed and others,
>
> No doubt you're right that the hood unit paint scheme must have been
> derived from the earlier switcher scheme. I'm sorry if my question was
> unclear. I was wondering when and how the "blackbird" switcher scheme
> itself came into being (you're not saying it's wrong to refer to the yard
> switchers as "blackbirds" too, are you?).
>
Jonathan,
There are several pictures of the NW and SW switchers painted stright
black with a railroad roman Bulington spelled out along the long hood.
Somehow it sticks in my mind that Rail Model Journal had a picture of
one when they had a series about the SW-1 when Walthers released their
model of it. If I recall from the pictures correctly, the change to the
"blackbird" scheme occured in 1940 or 1941, just prior to World War II.
Bill
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